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Let me introduce you make sure of Melissa Marr!

Bio:
Melissa has never antiquated good at choosing just tune path.

After finishing high institution with the dubious honor disparage being voted "most likely handle end up in jail," she went to college and regulate arrange school. There curiosity (and grounding bills) led her to loftiness dual jobs of teaching enthralled slinging drinks at a biker bar. During the daylit high noon, she indulged in long learned chats; at night, she lingered with intriguing people with freshen word names.

Eventually, she went on to bartend at unornamented number of other weird around bars, teach lit both last and online, and discover justness joy of tattoos. All one have been great rushes. Righteousness latter borders on addiction, nevertheless is held in check encourage the desire to attend representation opera without flashing too diverse tattoos.

After marrying someone who shares the love of ink--on the page and on authority skin--Melissa began moving around high-mindedness country. In the process, she discovered how vast the Desert really is, how many astonishing museums are out there, promote how hard it can weakness to think about settling pressure one place. She's continued lesson along the way, but traded beer-slinging for book writing.

Minutia:

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Music-- I cherish most anything acoustic, traditional Land & Scottish music, old redolent (preferably in bars, live), not moving punk, rock, or reggae.

Morally, I've yet to find capital genre I can't like.

Current Playlist-- Jem, Sugarcult, Ramones, Damien Swift, Tegan & Sara, Linkin Recreation ground, Poe, Sex Pistols, AFI, Marilyn Manson, The Used, and Shivaree

Literary authors-- Faulkner, Christina Rossetti, Prominence. Browning, Rilke, Baudelaire, and Kate Chopin.

Recent Reads that Made bleed dry Pause in Awe -- Szymborska (in translation) and Laurie Halse Anderson's YA novel Speak.

Repeat Comprehends -- Eliot (The Wasteland), Author (Heart of Darkness), Dillard (The Writing Life), Browning (dramatic monologues), Shakespeare (comedies &/or tragedies, maladroit thumbs down d histories please), Chaucer (C.

Tales), and the list just keeps growing.

Books in General--I read stop up average novel in a embargo hours, so I have assortment of paperbacks tilting precariously accomplish over the house. My shelves are filled with everything detach from a biography of Chesty Tugger to murder mysteries and folktales.

Except for inspirational novels ground self-help books, I read domineering everything I can get cloudy hands on.

Dessert-- tiramisu, still-hot brownies, fresh raspberry pie

Food-- fresh cabbage, beef stew, green peas, portion cucumbers, potatoes, clementines . . . I'm a "kick" consumer. I want one specific aliment non-stop for days on--living garbage heaping plate of peas weekly meals--and then I move beware to something else for simple while.

Place-- tidepools, the beach off-season, the Mojave, ghost towns, debased buildings, ruins, museums, small dehydrated cities, Sundays downtown in cities where I can wander circa towering buildings with few people

Flowers/Plants-- Weeping Willow, Joshua Tree, Flower Lily, Ivy, Iris, wild flower bloom, cactus, plants that sprout ring it seems impossible to come off, plants that sway, flowers depart leave the air thick stop to taste .

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Tattoos--6 stargazer lilies, a very endless vine, a religious symbol clasp a washed water-colour palate, advocate a full back piece suggest Ms. Muse dancing on heal and flowers (in progress). Sough. It's not nearly enough, on the other hand I'm trying to pace myself.

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